Program Purpose Statement

The nurse-midwifery program educates students to become competent health care practitioners, scholars, and leaders with a clinical focus on the reproductive and primary health care needs of women and their neonates.

Student Learning Outcomes Statements

At the end of the nurse-midwifery programs, graduates will be able to:

Demonstrate the independent management of primary health screening and health promotion of women from the perimenarcheal through post-menopausal periods.

Demonstrate the independent management of women during pregnancy, childbirth, and the post partum period.

Demonstrate the independent management of the care of the well newborn during the first 28 days of life.

Evaluate, utilize, interpret, and collaborate in research.

Demonstrate professional accountability through collaborative communication in the provision of midwifery care to women and their families.

Demonstrate an understanding of the concepts of health care principles and a familiarity with the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM)Standardsfor the Practice of Midwiferyand the ACNMCode of Ethics.

Demonstrate critical thinking and clinical judgment in the practice of clinical midwifery.

Apply interpersonal and communication skills to care for diverse populations of women and their families.

Demonstrate development of leadership skills directed toward representation of the midwifery model of care in clinical practice, health policy, education, and scholarship.